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I I /7\ r===5MCMB£ Rr=====« --"TT"* J>'»pc5 A«"v ’ “ > u - h^mion r_- . _ This •.•■•' is renrene'uer! for general advertising by th Nebraska Preaa AsHi>ciatu>n. \ EDITORIAL BEGINNING THE WAR ON ROOSEVELT The New York Chamber of Commerce, the Hearst i enspapers, Allred E. Smith join their opposition to the Rational Recovery Administration. Five of the leading industrialists of the nation, including Schab, and Teagle have joined with Senator Carter Glass and the National X ress Association in opposing the methods and inquisi tions of the N. R. A. The farmers of the west have backed up five of their governors in bitter and solemn defience of the practices and provisions of the Agricultural Adminstra tion, a branch of the N. R. A. From all sections of the country the politicians have taken their tongues out of their cheeks and have recovered their voices and are be ginning to make common cause against the; effort to re giment and sovietise the American people. The Amer ican Legion has gone on record in opposing the recogni tion of the soviet union by the Roosevelt Administration. The catholics and jews of the country for religious rea sons are equally opposed to the dollar diplomacy of the ad ministration wThich offers recognition in return for the trade of the land of Lenin and Trotsky. These things are significant. President Roosevelt has reckoned with out the things spiritual and fundament al in the equation. On March fourth, we said that the acid test of the New Deal would be its honest, open champ ionship of the equality of colored America in the body politic. Paliatives, the evasion of the issue not only will not suffice. Theywill be bommerangs, we said. We are not prepared to say, as have many institu tions and groups and individuals, that the New Deal has not functioned for the real“forgotten man” of the nation In as much as ye have done it unto the least of these my little ones, ye have done it unto me. The New Deal has aggravated the civic and industrial plight of a group of twelve million loyal American Citizens. There can be no peace, there can be no progress that will be permanent until they are frankly and fearlessly taken into the scheme of things. We make bold to say that the wave of lynch law which, during the eight months of Roosevelts Ad minstration has exceeded both in number of victims and in ferocity any similar period since Woodrow Wilson. There are fewer colored wage earners employed today than a year ago. They have become victims of the minimum wage conditions imposed upon industry by the N. R. A., and because the American industries have not been forced h(y the N. R. A. to give equal work with equal pay to them. We mention these outrages not because of their inherent injustices but because we believe that they are providential warnings to the nation to let this people go. The cold calculations of Washington to build Re covery without reckoning with the black, oaken pier be neath it, is like building a house upon shifting sand. The winds of oppofeiton and the rains of perversity have be gun to beat on the house and it will fall because it is built upon the sands. We do not believe further that the Amer ican government can run its business, it can not finance the business of the nation, it can not limit the production or the consumption of the people in this free country. It can only regulate the business and the industry to satisfy its own structure and for its own benefit. We join with all other patriots in crying for relief. We do not hesitate to declare that the appointment of one or two supine individuals of color and of Caucasian advi sors of rebel lineage are efforts to white wash the situa ton. We urge the N. R. A. to try another experiment— since a policy of experimentation to bring back prosper ity is the corner stone of the Roosevelt regime—should be tried. That policy should include a forthright pronounce ment from the President declaring specifically the colored citizens in on the New Deal. That pronouncement must banish mob rule as a menacing evil of the nation. Let Roosevelt speak out loud and bold and with equal boldness execute the laws of the land or the mul-murs of the masses will turn into open wrar upon his policy and program at no distant date National News Briefs V> ashington—(CNS)-—In February the Federal Emergency Relief Actmin istration announced a program to help financially one hundred thousand col lege and unversity students during the ensuing semester. The plan pro vided that worthy young men and women be given jobs by the educa tional institutions and be paid from $10 to $25 a month from Government r lief funds- The colleges to waive all tuition,registration and other fees '1 he preliminary report from coiiege ancl universities throughout the coun try to Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Emergancy Relief Adminstrator, shows that approximately 1,200 col legos and universities are now co operating with the Government in this movement The cost of the program is about $1 017,612 a month with more than 70,000 young men and women re ceiving aid- Among the 1,207 educa tional nstitutions listed in the move ment are eighty 'odd colored intsi tutions caring for some 2,200 students . at an approximate cost to the Fed-' eral Government of $31,000 per month The plans for putting the program into effect were worked out by Dr L- R- Alderman, the Director of Emer- | ency Education, Federal Emergency Relief Administration and with the I | coopedation of the Office of Education Department of the Interior, and ! vith Dr- Ambrose Caliver, Specialist n Negro Education saw to it that the colored institutions of the United | States, some 120 in number were fully advised as to the movement Approximately three-fourths of the : students helped are those who would have to drop out at the end of the 1 first semester for financial reasons, and about one-fourth are new students who would have been unable to enter • without the income from a part time job- The jobs provide an income of approximately $15.00 per month The report shows that students in colored schools and colleges in 18 States have been given employment on a wide variety of useful projects. The projects range from unskilled labor or repair work to technical assistance in scientific labortories and libraries, as well as clerical service and waiting on table- In the institu tions the sttudept \aid program is carried out under the presidents with the Federal funds received through the different State authorities. Of the 82 colored colleges and uni versities shown in the report, North Carolina leads with eleven, followed by Georgia with ten; Texas with nine; Tennessee with eight; Virginia with six; and South Carolina and Louisiana with five each- The number of color ed colleges in the various States, the maximum ntimber of students they may aid with Federal funds and the maximum allottment the State emer gency relief adminstration may take to each college each month until the end of the school term follow: State and Name of College Job Mo Quota All Alabama Miles Memorial College 13 $ 195 Talladega College 20 300 The State Teachers College Montgomery, Alabama 30 450 State Agricultrral and Mecanical Institution 10 150 Tuskegee Normal and In dustrial Institute 81 1,215 154 2,310 Arkansas Shorter College 5 75 Philander Smith College 11 165 , Arkansas State College 51 765 67 1,005 District of Columbia Miner Teachers College 53 795 Howard University 109 1,635 162 2,430 Georgia Industrial College 32 480 Atlanta University 4 60 Clark University 32 480 Morehouse College 24 360 Gammon Theo- Seminary 6 90 Morris Brown College 24 360 Ga- Nor. & Agri- Col- 46 690 Ft- Valley Nor- & Ind- Sch. 6 90 Spellman College 21 315 Paine College *3 195 208- 3,120 Kentucky Kentucky St. Ind- Col- 31 465 Lincoln Inst- of Kentucky 4 60 West Ken. Ind- College 10 150 45 675 Louisiana Leland College of Baker 12 180 New Orleans University 20 300 Southern University 32 480 Straight College 14 210 Xtvier College 41 615 119 1,785 Maryland Md- State Normal-Bowie 9 135 Morgan College 38 570 47 706 Mississippi Tougaloo College 9 135 Southern Christian Inst- 2i 30 Alcorn A. & M- Col'ege 16 240 Jackson College 6 90 Campbell College 3 45 j Rust College 7 107 j - -j 43 645 Missouri Lincoln University 23 346 Stowe Teachers College 18 195 41 540 North Carolina. Agricultural & Tech Col 26 390 N- C- College for Negroes 21 315 j Bennett College for women 12 285 j St. Augustine’s College 17 225 j Shaw University 24 3601 State Normal school— Fayetteville 29 435 j Livingston College 13 195 j State Normal School Elizaeth City 277 405 Barer-Ssotia Jr- College 10 150; Johnson C- Smith Uni- 25 375 Winston-Salem Teachs Col. 24 360 235 3,525 Ohio- * Wilberforce College 569 885 559 885 Oklahoma Colored Agri & Normal Un 52 750 Pennsylvania Cheney Train sch for Trs 14 182 j South Calorina State Agri & Meehan Col- 24 765 j Morris College 16 360 Claflin College 11 165 Vilen University 20 450 Benedict College 28 630 109 2.370 Tennessee. Fisk University 30 450 Agricultural & Industrial 64 960 Lane College 32 480 Swift Memoral 3 45 LeMoyne College 22 330 Knoxville College 23 345 Morristown Nor & Ind Col 4 60 Meharry Medcal College 20 300 198 2,970 Texas. Marshall College 25 375 1 iley Colleege 31 465 Texas College 23 345 Sam Houston S- Tch- Coll- 58 870 Prairie Viel College 52 780 Tillotson College 12 l8® Guadeloupe College 7 105 St- Phollips jr- College 6 90 261 3,915 Vilginia Va- Theo- Seminary & Col- 6 90 Hampton Institute 72 1080 St- Paul N- and S- 16 240 Va- St- Col. for Negroes 58 870 Va- Union University 27 405 Union Teologieal Seminary 10 150 West Virginia. Bluefield State Tch- Col 21 315 j Wes Va- State College 53 375 j 74 1,110 MONROE TROTTER MILITANT EDITOR OF GUARDIAN DIES IN PLUNGE Boston, Mass- (CNS)—William Monroe Trotter, the militant editor of the Boston Guardian and Secretary of the National Equal Rights League, •was killed here April 6, in a plunge from an upper story window of his home ir. the Roxbury district- He had retired from the active publica tion of his paper about a week ago and had been in an extremely nervous condition for several months’ due to over work- His sister Mrs- Maude Trotter Steward has assumed his newspape duties. Mr- Pelham of the Capitol News Service in commenting on Mr. Trot ter’s death said: “William Monroe Trotter, best known as Monroe Trot ter, was in the opinion of many the most consistent militant editor in the United States. Editing and publish ing the Guardian of Boston, Mass-, he kept at the work heading his paper with the ringing slogan: ‘Segregation for Colored is the Real Permahent Damning Degradation in the U. S. A—Fight It.’ “He was spokesman for nuremous delegations that made visits to the White House urging Executive action in many race matters- At one time, he was so insistent and out spoken in presenting his cause that he was invited by President Wilson to de sist or retire with his delegation— he did the latter with dramatic ef fect and thus drew the world’s at tention to the cause for which he was fighting. “I fully agree with one of his pals ‘ who trv^o days befofre his death wrote: ‘Hello .Pal. How are you? Like thousands of others, I presume you are a little overtaxed, having worked hard- You know there is only one Monroe Trotter, too bad you didn’t have a dozen boys to take j your place- Cheer up, old boy, there j is a lot of work you are to do for the race. You are the greatest race champion since the days of Moses, the geatest our day has ever had-’ “Trotter’s tragic death on his 62nd birthday following a family reunion just a few days prior, at Neponset surrounded by two sisters and fcis uncle, “W. H- Dupree, 95 years eld Marhc 31; is greatly to be regretted-” Following Month of Prayer Paralysis Victim Walks Again. Memphis, Term-,—(CNS)—“I read in the Bible that in the olden days n^d helr d those Hebrew boys and I know He was powerful to help me, too- He delivered them out of the fiery furnace and delivered Daniel from the lion’s den ” said Homer Moore, a 20-year-old colored laborer, who sudenly arose from his bed in the Maine Hospital here, where he haH b'V'n confined apparently a hope less victim of paralysis, and walked. “T felt a-tremblin’ in my chest-I felt the power coming in- I got up "’’t of H°d. It is the work of the Lord- He raised me up.” Thus does Moore describe the “Miracle” that came to pass a few days ago Nurses and doctors point him out They accept his case as one of the accidental phenomena in the sym nh-fiv of science. Moore just says a “miracle” came to, pass Since last fall, when he fell while working on the Government fleet Helena, Arkassas, Homer has been in bed, in the hospital here- or at He lena- Unable to move hands, feet or head, scarcely able to whisper, he was given water through a tube, fed much and other soft foods with a spoon. Praying constantly, he had others pray for him a few days ago, he be gan fasting. Nurses could not force him to take nourishment Sunday, they said, he was lying in the bed in the sunshine- Suddenly, he sat up, paced his feet on the floor and walked- He talked plainly, asked for food and ate it- Now, he walks most of the time, waiting on other patients at the hospital The “New Deal in Dixie. New York—(CNS)—Miss Mary j White Ovington, Treasurer of the National Association for the Advan cement of Colored people after a sixty-day tour in the south in com menting on the “New Deal” in the South said: “The politicians are in the first row,, the poor whites In the second, and the Negroes a good way back in the third line- Naturally they get what the others leave and in many places, where the money is considerable,the 1 and need work, the leavings are old clothes, some food, little work- But where the money is considerate, the Negro may get a job- You see them on the roads, two Negroes languidly using a shovel and two white men lounging by them as overseers DR. R. A. ADAMS IS EN DORSED FOR EDITOR OF A. M. E. REVIEW At the sessions of the Kansas City District Conference last week, Dr. R A- Adams, who is presiding elder of that district was enthusiastically en dorsed for the position of editor of the A- M- E- Review. This journal is conceeded to be one of the highest literary class and for the most part, its editors have been men of excep tional ability in this field- The list of editors included Dr- J- T- Jenifer, Prof- H- T- Keating, Bishops L- J Coppin and R- C- Ransom, and the present incumbent Dr- J. G- Robinson In announcing his candidacy Dr. Adams declared that if he were elect ed he would commit himself to the following policy: first to make the review the best in its history; second to recommend the reduction of the subscription price of the review from one dollar and a half to one dollar; third, to initiate an effort to put the Review into hands of thousands of laymen; fourth, to use the surplus that (may accrue for the benefit of superannuates and the families of deceased ministers The resolution endorsing Dr- Adams was signed by Drs- W. D- Wilkins, J- N. Goddard, T- W. Kidd, ministers serving the largest churches in Kan sas City District- The resolution read: “Be it resolved that our district Conference in session assembled pledg our support to Dr- R- A- Adams in his candidacy for the editor of the A- M- E- Review, knowing him to be a man eminently qualified for this office, and that we present him to the Fifth Episcopal Distrit with the recommendation that he be accepted as the District candidate for this position” LOLA STEWART’S COLUMN (For the Literary Service Bureau) Items in Negro History “AFRICA UNKNOWN” For centuries Africa has existed in the minds of men not as a continent but as a coast line- The early Afri cans were known mostly by their Mediterranean commerce and inter course- Hdmer considered them “the fatherest removed men ” Herodotus stated that visits as far as the equator, were made by the Phoeni cians six centuries before Christ 1 About 450 or 500 B. C- trading posts were established on the coast of | Morocco and perhaps reached as far l as the Gold Coast. The ancients had practically accurate knowledge of the Nile from its source- Mohammedan slavetraders had taken Northern Afri ca by the eighth century; later,they crossed the Saraha Desert into Sou dan and went as far south as the Zambesi- Christian slave traders suc ceeded the Mohammedans, but their traffic, was confined to the coast No definite knowledge of the interior of Africa was obtained until 1874. when Henry M- Stanley made his explorations in Central Africa- (To be continued) WHAT THE NEGRO EDITORS ARE SAYING _ “President Roosevelt has a gigantic task in bringing the various indus tries into working agreement under the NRA- One fortunate thing is that the majority of the American people believe he is equal to the task, and this belief-pervades the economic atmosphere and crosses party lines. Air. Roosevelt knows that he is only the coordinator; that the people, after all are the ones to determine the suc cess of the adminstration- It is this traditional courage of the A(merican people tut will pull the country through the depression if it is going : to be pulled at all. We are not j quite out of the debale yet- The com ing months will call for the best brains ' and the most alert assistance from ; all the people.”—Tampa Bulletin, j April 14, 1934 ! WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT US — “The abolition of Negro slavery ] was not only justified but absolutely required by the prnciple af utility and by the conscience of mankind; for Negro slavery was a disgrace to civil ization and an obstacle to progress But could the Abolitionists either in England or in the United States have fought with success their desperate battle against oppression had they not been strengthened by an unswerv ing faith in the essentials similarity and equality of all human beings whether blacks or whites?” A- V Dicey in “Law and Public Opinion in England-” CUBAN DAILY FEA TUBES ANTI LYNCH ING FIGHT New York, April 22—The Natonal J Association for the Advancement of Colored People has just received a copy of “El Pais”, leading Havana daily, carrying a column-long story on the Costigan-Wagner anti-lynch ing bill hearings. _ i N. A. A. C. P. INSPIRED TORTURE OF SCOTTS BORO DEFENDANTS IS CALLED “VICI OUS LIE” New York, April 20—The charge printed originally in the Daily Work er and reprinted in several colored newspapers that the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People and especially Wiliam Pickens field secretary, “planned and directed” torture of the Scottsboro defendents in jail in Birmingham in order to get them to give up the I- L- D- and take N. A- A- C- P- lawyers was branded here today as a “vicious lie” by Mr. Pickens and the association. The “news story” stated Dean Pickens had visited the boys in the Birmingham jail “four weeks ago” to try and “persuade them to renounce the I. L D. and except a lawyer of the association” Pickens has not visited the boys since 1931 and has not been in the state of Alabama since 1932, he de clared today The “news story” also stated that “a pact between the national leader ship of the N- A- A- C- P- and the Alabama lynchers was revealed” as the cause of the “reign of terror against the Scottsboro boys- The Washington Tribune story stated: “This charge was made by the Inter national Labor Defense following an intensive investigation, etc.” General Lee and Lynch Law Great Confederate Leader Twice Dispersed Mobs and Saved In tended Victims By R- B- Eleazer. It is not commonly known that the noted Confederate leader, Gen- R- E Lee. while president of Washington and Lee University just after the Civil War, twice broke up mobs in Lexington, Va-, the seat of the Uni versity, and saved their intended victims from death- Two stories are told in Riley’s biography of Lee, the one by Prof. C- A- Graves of the University faculty and the other by Judge D. G. Tyler of Holdcroft, Va., both alumni of the institution. In brief Prof. Graves’ story is as fol lows: In the spring of 1866 while he was a student at the University, a report reached the campus that a mob had gath re i at the county jail, bent on lynching an alleged horse thief. Rush ing down to the jail yard, he found it filled with a milling crowd of de termined men surrounding the jailer and demanding the keys- Then he became aware of the presence of General Lee moving quietly among the crowd and urging each group as h' nasse ’ fo let the law take its course. This continued far some time and then the mcrt> slowly broke up, remounted their horses and rode out of town- Prof- Graves says, “They could not do a deed of lawless violence in the presence of ‘Marse Robert,’ whose standard they had followed on marfy a battle field,” Judge Tyler tells as follows of a similar incident which took place during his first year at Washington and Lee: A very popular young student, a son of Judge Brockenbrough, profes sor of law, got into a difficulty with •v ind was badly shot- His life was despaired of- As soon as the news of the assault reached the col lege, four hundred students, with a brother of the wounded boy at their head, searched for and captured the trembling wretch, and with a rope around his neck, marched through the streets of the town to the court house square, with intent to wreck their vengeance on the man “It was in vain that the college and town authorities sought to calm the frenzied mob and induce them to turn over the Negro to the officers of the law. Just then General Lee appeared- In/mediately the tumult was hushed, and the General, stand ing in the midst of the excited throng, simply said: ‘Young gentle men, let the law take ts course-’ The quiet words had the effect of a mili tary order, and the Negro’s life was saved.” Commission on Interracial Cooperation. R. B- Eleazer, Educational Director Atlanta, Ga-. April 18—Reports from abroad indicate that Prof- Fred erick Hall, of this city, now studying music in England under a fellowship of the General Education Board, is making notable progress with his work, and living up fully to his American reputation for character and ability Sailing in September with his bride, the former Miss Mildren Phil lips Greenwood, of Atlanta- Prof Hall has since been located in London- where he is studying com position, voice and choral and or chestral conducting in the Royal College of Music. Meantime, through contact with the Federaton of Music al Festivities and the Folk Dance So ciety, he is ("making a wide study of folk music- He has also been ac corded extraordinary opportunities to observe the work of the London Or chesta and of the great Westminster Abbey, Madrigal and Bach Choirs The vast musical collections in the British Museum and the Cecil Sharp Library have also been made avail able to him Mr- and Mrs- Hall expect soon to go into Wales for an intensive study of the folk music of that country, thence into Scotland, and later to the principal musical capitals of Europe Prof- Hall’s special interest em brace folk music, school music and church music- On his return to America he hopes to foster the de velopment of these three types of music among American Negroes, as effective means of culture and self expression, and as assets to the cokn munity and church life of the race Mrs- Hall, an excellent pianist, is continuing her studies and at the same time helping her husband in his work. The couple have met many outstanding musical leaders who have shown them every courtesy and given them the fullest opportunity to profit by their stay abroad The son of Mrs- Laura r- Han, oi this city, Prof- Hall is one of fixe children, all of whom though brought up by a widowed mother, have achiev ed places of usefulness and respect As composer, teacher and conductor, he is widely known throughout the south, and to a lesser degTee in the East and middle West- For several years he was instructor in music at Jackson College, Jackson, Miss-, and served at the same time as supervis or of music in the city schools- He then returned to Atlanta, where he has since been remarkably success ful as director of 'music at Clark University, Morris Brown College and Gammon Theological Seminary. While here he composed and directed the notable musical pageants11 Pearly Gates” and “Heritage,” which have been produced and enthusiastically received in many of the principal southern cities- The former had a successful run also in Chicago Prof- Hall’s fellowship was grant ed on the basis of his well-known ability, and in the expectation that, after a season of study abroad, he would be fitted for even larger service to the people of his own country.